Anyone see any Bway stars perform before they 'made it'...? — Page 3

I saw Sutton Foster on tour in Les Mis.

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Daniel Breaker went to my high school.

I didn't know him or anything though.

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I directed Sally Murphy in summer stock when she was 16 - does that count?

Other well known performers who worked at my theatre include Merle Dandridge, Aisha DeHaas, and Michael Shannon.

In 1993, I was in "Funny Girl" with Stephanie Block. It was her first Equity show. My part was the Tenor and she was Fanny Brice. The whole bride number that I sang, was about her.

Cheyenne Jackson used to do shows all the time at two community theatres near me--The Village Theatre and The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle. He actually stays at my old voice teacher's house sometimes when he comes back to Washington.

"Cheyenne Jackson used to do shows all the time at two community theatres near me--The Village Theatre and The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle. He actually stays at my old voice teacher's house sometimes when he comes back to Washington."

- I actually worked stage crew at Village Theatre and did "Bells are Ringing" with Cheyenne in the ensemble.
During "The Midas Touch" number, he was a dancer and he was dressed in a loincloth and some big neck jewelry thing (think Joseph in the scenes of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat" where his brothers come to meet him in Egypt, and he's the Paroah's "Right Hand Man").

My job during that scene was to squat behind the set piece that Dr. Kitchell sings on to keep is mic cord in check (he sings into a live mic for this song as a "lounge act"), and the gal dancers and Cheyenne were all back there with me. Needless to say, I got up close and personal with Cheyenne's thighs and pecks long before anyone on Broadway got to!

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Cheyenne Jackson in a whole bunch of regional productions in Seattle.

Whenever we'd see him in a show my mom would open her program and say, "Look, the pretty boy who can sing but can't act is in this."

She doesn't believe me when I tell her his acting has improved a bit since then.

I saw Norm Lewis in the Toronto production of Miss Saigon many moons ago. I also saw the Fosters and Marissa in the Grease tour. Saw Linda Balgord as Rose in the Aspects of Love tour-she was amazing.

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I saw Missi Pyle in several productions at NCSA in the mid-nineties, including Squeaky in ASSASSINS and Cressida in TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.

In the early nineties, Kate Walsh did community theatre in Tucson. I saw her in TOOTH OF CRIME and BAAL.

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I saw Neil Patrick Harris peform in his last high school play his Senior year of high school. Does that count, since he was already in Doogie Howser previously? Well he had not been on Broadway yet so I say it counts. He was in this play Terminal Cafe. The whole so was amazing and I can still remember it too this day, to think that was like 15 or 16 years ago, in his home town of Albuquerque, NM, then I saw him years later on the same stage in the tour of RENT. Boys come a long way!! :)

Carolee Carmello in the 1990 "Chess" tour...even back then, it was a local girl made good story...she graduated from SUNY Albany and the show played Proctors in Schenectady.